Settler lobby ups pressure as Israel PM meets Obama

Pro-settler groups has stepped up pressure on Israel’s premier not to cave in during White House talks to demands that he extend a partial freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank.

JERUSALEM – Pro-settler groups stepped up pressure on Israel’s premier not to cave in during on Tuesday’s White House talks to demands that he extend a partial freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank.

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On April 20th, 2010 a few dozen youngsters of World Likud held a demonstration outside of the annual Independence Day event hosted by Defense Minister Ehud Barak.  The demonstration focused on ceasing the plan to demolish the houses of Major Roi Klein and Major Eliraz Peretz.  The demonstrators demanded that during this annual Independence Day event Defense Minister Ehud Barak must declare that the houses be left untouched as opposed to his previous statement where he expressed that the decision on demolishing or not should be postponed for 6 months.  The demonstrators believe that there is no reason to postpone the decision but rather that the moral and ethical decision to leave the houses untouched should be made now by Ehud Barak.

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